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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$17.5M
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Willis Stein & Partners is a leading private equity investment firm specializing in negotiated investments in profitable, well-managed and growing companies. We support excellent management teams in acquiring and building middle-market companies focused generally in the business services, consumer products and services, health care, manufacturing, media and telecommunications industries. Our primary objective is to create value within a diversified portfolio of companies resulting in attractive returns.
Number of Employees 15
Contact Information
1 N Wacker Dr Ste 4800
Chicago, Illinois 60606
(312) 422-2400
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NAICS Code Miscellaneous Intermediation: 523910
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Willis Stein & Partners Exits National Veterinary Associates
- 2007-04-19
CHICAGO -- Willis Stein & Partners, a leading Chicago-based private investment firm, today announced that it has exited from National Veterinary Associates NVA, a Willis Stein portfolio company and the largest private operator of freestanding veterinary hospitals in the U.S., and that Summit Partners has provided a substantial investment alongside...
Willis Stein & Partners to Sell Baker & Taylor for Approximately $455 Million
- 2006-05-11
CHICAGO -- Willis Stein & Partners, a leading Chicago-based private investment firm, today announced the sale of Baker & Taylor, a Willis Stein portfolio company and the leading distributor of books, video, music and electronic games products to the global institutional library and retail markets, to a company organized by...
Chicago—private equity firm Willis Stein & Partners recently acquired two salty snack companies: Jays Foods and Lincoln Snacks
- 2004-05-03
CHICAGO -- Private equity firm Willis Stein & Partners recently acquired two salty snack companies: Jays Foods and Lincoln Snacks. Potato chip maker Jays had filed for bankruptcy protection in March. Lincoln Snacks, which makes Poppycock, Just the Nuts, Fiddle Faddle and Screaming Yellow Zonkers snacks, was divested by Brynwood...
Chicago-Based Private Equity Group to Buy Potato Chip Firm Out of Bankruptcy.
- 2004-03-05
By Jim Kirk, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 5--For the second time in the 77-year history of Jays Foods LLC, the Japp family is letting go of its closely held snack food business best known for making Jays potato chips. ...
Baker & Taylor sold for $255 million: will continue to grow with bookstores, Web. (Distribution).(Willis Stein & Partners acquires book wholesaler from Carlyle Group)
- 2003-07-07
Wholesaler Baker & Taylor will be acquired by private equity firm Willis Stein & Partners from the Carlyle Group for $255 million. "We are excited about this next stage in the 175-year history of Baker & Taylor," B&T retail president Jim Ulsamer...
USA Interactive to Acquire Interval International From Willis Stein & Partners and Other Investors
- 2002-05-31
Business, Travel and High Tech Editors New York, NY--BUSINESS WIRE--May 31, 2002 Leading Timeshare Exchange Company to Complement USA's Interactive Commerce Portfolio USA Interactive (Nasdaq: USAI) announced today an agreement to purchase Interval International ("Interval") through the acquisition of its holding company, Interval Acquisition Corp., from...
Roundy's To Be Sold To Investment Firm.(Willis Stein & Partners)(Abstract)(Brief Article)(Fiction)
- 2002-04-15
Roundy's Inc., Milwaukee, WI, has agreed to be sold to Chicago, IL-based investment firm Willis Stein & Partners for an undisclosed amount, citing its inability to compete for long as a homespun cooperative of grocery store owners against large national chains, reported The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...
Willis Stein & Partners finalizes agreement to acquire EDS' community banking business.
- 1999-12-22
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 December 1999-EDS: Willis Stein & Partners finalizes agreement to acquire EDS' community banking business C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:211299 * New Company Primarily Focuses on Core Banking, Item Processing and Electronic Business PLANO, Texas and CHICAGO,...
Willis Stein & Partners Agrees to Acquire Ziff-Davis Publishing for $780 Million - Company Business and Marketing
- 1999-12-13
Willis Stein & Partners, a leading private equity investment firm, Monday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ziff-Davis Publishing from Ziff Davis, Inc. for $780 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2000. Willis Stein has again...
EDS to spin off community banking business - to private equity investment firm Willis Stein & Partners - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article
- 1999-12-09
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-C 1994-9 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD IT services provider EDS says that it has signed a definitive agreement to spin off its community banking business to private equity investment firm Willis Stein & Partners. EDS expects to close the deal before the end of the year. In other...
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